Lavender Araucana (Large Fowl)

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Lavender Araucana (Large Fowl) Breed Information

These birds were purchased from the Secretary of the Araucana club, Ky Thurland; who has won many awards with her birds. She is widely regarded as the best Araucana breeder around. They are exhibition quality with fantastic colour and type. They also lay stunning blue eggs.

THE NATIONAL 2011 – STONELEIGH
LAVENDER ARAUCANA COCKEREL 1ST
FEDERATION 2011 -STAFFORD
LAVENDER ARAUCANA COCKEREL 3RD
LAVENDER ARAUCANA HEN 4TH
FEDERATION 2010 – STAFFORD
LAVENDER ARAUCANA COCKEREL 1ST
LAVENDER ARAUCANA COCKEREL 2ND
LAVENDER ARAUCANA HEN 3RD
CHESHIRE SHOW 2010
LAVENDER ARUACANA (BLUE EGG) 2ND
THE NATIONAL 2010 – STONELEIGH
LAVENDER ARAUCANA COCKEREL 4TH

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We are a member of the British Araucana Club and keep abreast of all the latest news regarding this breed. This helps is maintain our high standards and great show results with this breed. You can also become a member of this club for under £10 per year. By joining you will receive an annual newsletter and year book. You will also receive a Rules and Standard for breeding quality Araucanas, a members list, history of the breed information and this way you will be helping to encourage and improve the breeding of Araucanas for exhibition and utility purposes as well as having access to assistance from expert breeders. The club will keep you posted with all the latest information and show results regarding this breed. For more information on how to join contact us.

Lavender Araucana (Large Fowl) Breed Characteristics

Origin: Chile is the home of the Araucana as a breed and the lavender variant was first bred by George Malcolm in Scotland in the 1930’s.
Classification: Light: Soft feather Egg Colour: Blue or green
General Characteristics:
Carriage: Alert and active.
Type: Body is long and deep, free from heaviness. Back is moderately long and horizontal. Wings are large and strong. Tail is well developed with full sickles carried at an angle of 45o. Head: Moderately small. Beak is strong and stout. Eyes are bold. Comb small pea. Face covered with thick muffling and ear muffs abundant. Crest compact and carried well back from the eyes. Ear-lobes moderately small and concealed by muffling. Wattles absent.
Neck: Of medium length abundantly furnished with hackle feathers. Legs & Feet: Medium length, strong and well apart legs. Shanks are free from feathers. Four straight and well spread toes.
Colour: An even shade of blue-grey throughout.
Weight: Large Fowl
Male: Not less than 6-7 lb (2.7-3.2kg) Female: Not less than 5-6 lb (2.25-2.7kg)

What Our Customers Say About Our Lavender Araucana (Large Fowl)

“As always both Steve and Steph communicated brilliantly, fast efficient service and superb quality eggs. Steph contacted me to let me know that she would send them the following day and they arrived ahead of schedule, well packed and in perfect condition. Well done to all the Cheshire poultry team and many thanks.”

Mark Sharples

“Eggs were uniform size and all fantastic in colour, they are due to hatch on Friday its Monday today and five out of the six you sent me are fertile and completely full of chick and so I’m hopeful that my 8yr old will have her ‘purple’ chickens just in time for her birthday. thank you after a long hunt I know where to order quality hatching eggs from now.”

Carole Sansom

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